Over a year since I last posted. Hardly ideal. I could make excuses, but, as you’ll see below, that’s not my style. So, I’ll simply say – I’M BACK!

Lately I’ve found myself questioning my training. Not so much in the ‘I’m not sure I want to do this’ way, but in the ‘why do I enjoy this’?

All too often (it seems) a new client will say they ‘hate’ the gym. As someone who loves they gym, I have always found it difficult to understand how they could hate something I love (and think is pretty freaking cool). Then it occurred to me, maybe they hate the gym for what it represents to them?

Is the gym a place in which they see themselves as unfit, weak and/or over/underweight – whether in terms of the other gym users or some other imagined ideal?  If the gym is a venue and time to be reminded of their perceived failings, then yeah, I guess I can understand how they would hate it.

Alternatively, what if the gym could be viewed as a place to work on being ‘better’ (whatever that means to the individual)? Not better than everyone else in the gym, but better than you were before? No doubt it all sounds terribly clichéd, but just putting in the effort to improve has got to be a good thing!

Put in the effort on a consistent basis and you’ll be ‘better’. Get better and you may come to view the gym in an entirely different way. It’s not about being the strongest, fastest, leanest, etc (if you think you are any of those, I’d suggest you might be somewhat deluded to think there isn’t someone somewhere stronger, faster, leaner, etc), it’s about working consistently to improve and be better. What’s not to love about getting better?